Roman Supernatural Beings

615 documented Roman supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 329 lesser and 100 ancient in power tier.

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Tritonis
Lesser

Tritonis

Tritonis is primarily a classical toponym for a large inland lake or marsh in ancient North Africa (variously located in Libya, Tunisia, or Algeria) that functions in myth as the locus of local cult and legendary history, including a local Triton deity and the settlement of Libyan Amazons.

Turnus
Lesser

Turnus

Turnus is the legendary mortal King of the Rutuli and chief martial antagonist to Aeneas in Roman epic tradition (most prominently Virgil's Aeneid). Presented as a brave, hot‑headed warrior and suitor of Lavinia, his resistance to the Trojan settlement and eventual slaying by Aeneas form a key episode in Rome's mythic origins.

Tutelary Deities
Lesser

Tutelary Deities

Tutelary deities are guardians or patrons bound to a particular place, community, office, lineage, or social role. The category spans single local gods, local epithets of major gods, groups of protective deities incorporated into institutional religions, and localized spirits enshrined in temples or shrines.

Tutelary deity (tradition)
Lesser

Tutelary deity (tradition)

A tutelary is a divine or spirit figure regarded as a guardian, patron, or protector tied to a specific domain (place, household, person, lineage, occupation, or polity). Across cultures the term names a functional role—embodied by gods, spirits, ancestors, or meditational deities—rather than a single ontological type.

Tutelina
Lesser

Tutelina

Tutelina (also attested Tutilina or Tutulina) is a very sparsely attested Roman agricultural tutelary figure or divine personification associated with protection of crops or stored grain. The name is also used independently in modern taxonomy for a genus of jumping spiders; the two uses are distinct in the cited sources.

Tyche
Ancient

Tyche

Tyche (Greek Τύχη, Túkhē) is the personified deity of luck, fortune, and the collective prosperity or destiny of a polis. Originating in Classical Greek religion, she becomes especially prominent in the Hellenistic period as an explanatory and civic principle for unpredictable events and continues to appear in Roman iconography (often parallel to Fortuna).

Tydeus
Greater

Tydeus

Tydeus (Ancient Greek: Τυδεύς) is an Aetolian heroic figure of archaic Greek myth, counted among the Seven against Thebes and known as the father of Diomedes (Tydides). He appears in narratives of exile, single combat, and the Theban campaign; in some traditions his extreme violence — notably a reported episode of consuming the brains of his killer — leads the goddess Athena to withdraw a promised immortality.

Ursa Minor
Minor Spirit

Ursa Minor

Ursa Minor is a northern constellation (the 'Lesser Bear' or Little Dipper) historically used as a north marker because its brightest star, Polaris, currently marks the north celestial pole. It appears in multiple cultural star-systems (Greek, Babylonian, Chinese, Inuit) with varying asterism identities and has been included in classical and modern astronomical catalogues.

Vengeful ghost
Lesser

Vengeful ghost

A cross-cultural category for spirits of deceased persons who return to the living world to seek redress for a wrong suffered in life. Commonly tied to violent, unjust, or improperly handled deaths and addressed by culturally specific rites of appeasement, exorcism, or corrective funerary treatment.

Venus
Minor Spirit

Venus

Venus refers to two distinct but historically linked referents in the supplied sources: (1) the astronomical planet Venus, the second planet from the Sun with a dense CO2 atmosphere, extreme surface temperatures and thick sulfuric-acid clouds; and (2) Venus, the Roman goddess associated in summary form with love, sexuality, procreation and pleasure. The sources treat the planet with detailed physical and observational data and give only a brief statement of the goddess's domains.

Vesta
Ancient

Vesta

Vesta is attested in the supplied sources as the Roman goddess of the hearth and home. The available materials are primarily a modern disambiguation entry and related references; they identify Vesta's cultic association (e.g., Temple of Vesta) but do not provide detailed mythic narratives, genealogies, or ritual texts in the excerpts given.

Vulcan
Ancient

Vulcan

Vulcan is the Roman deity of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge, embodying both the constructive and destructive dimensions of fire — as a patron of craftsmen and as the force behind volcanic and conflagratory disaster. Sources characterize him succinctly as the god of both beneficial and hindering fire (forge and volcano).

Zeus
Ancient

Zeus

Zeus (Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) is the supreme deity of the classical Greek pantheon, a sky-and-thunder god who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus and functions as a sky‑father who assigns roles among the immortals.

Zeus Ammon
Ancient

Zeus Ammon

A Greco-Roman syncretic identification of the Egyptian deity Amun/Ammon with the Greek chief god Zeus, centered on Amun's oracle at the Siwa Oasis and used in Hellenistic and Roman contexts for religious, political, and iconographic purposes.

Śuri
Ancient

Śuri

Śuri is an ancient Etruscan deity combining chthonic (underworld), volcanic/fiery, and solar aspects. Centered on Mount Soracte and served by the Hirpi Sorani, he is associated with volcanic fire and lightning, the sun and the Manes, oracular functions, and communal health/plague rites.